1. Atlantic union: prospects and problems
2. The politics of fragmentation: De Gaulle the disintegrator
3. Atlantic partnership: slogan or solution?
4. Atlantic partnership: its further institutional development
5. NATO and detente: the Gaullist and Soviet views
6. NATO and detente management
7. Political issues facing the Atlantic alliance
8. The nettle of multilateral nuclear sharing
9. The economics of the Atlantic community
10. The north-south relationship
11. Parliamentary assemblies in the Atlantic community
Epilogue: a look ahead.